Greek Mythology Link - by Carlos Parada, author of Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology

| Biographies | GROUPS | Places & Peoples | Dictionary | Images | Albums | Topics | Search | Downloads |

 

Information for Educators

 

 

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The Greek Mythology Link is a collection of myths retold by Carlos Parada, author of Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, published in 1993 (available at Amazon). The GML contains Texts, Images, Charts and Maps. The mythical accounts are based exclusively on ancient sources.

The Greek Mythology Link is a web site with free access, published on the www by Maicar Förlag. Further details: About the Greek Mythology Link

 

Image of the GML Home Page
August 16, 2006

Copyright

The material contained within the thousands of pages belonging to the Greek Mythology Link web site is copyright. In addition, contributions by other authors (under the heading Signed Articles) have their own copyright, which is stated by an appended copyright notice in each particular case.

The contents of the Greek Mythology Link (Texts, Images, Charts and Maps) are intended for personal use and may not be distributed or reproduced in any form. In order to reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, modify, distribute or publicly perform or display material from the Greek Mythology Link, you must first obtain permission.

Downloads and replication are free and allowed for personal use. But no distribution, either commercial or non-commercial, is allowed. 

The material belonging to the Greek Mythology Link web site cannot be uploaded to intranet services, stored in course reserve systems, included in course packs, etc., without a proper license provided by Carlos Parada or Maicar Förlag.

Teachers and Educators are expected to contact the Greek Mythology Link if they plan an extensive use of the web site in their courses, to download pages, to collectively display the site, to print and/or distribute portions of the site, etc. In such and similar cases, a license should be purchased.

 

Licenses

A number of Downloads and PDF files are available. Purchasing a license will enable you to freely use the material in your classroom and course activities.

There are three licenses:

1. Personal license (Price as stated in each case in the site)
2. Teacher license (Price = Personal license x 2)
3. College license (Price = Personal license x 3)

Basic rules: By college any educational institution is understood; by teacher any educator in any level. A personal user is restricted to himself. For pedagogical purposes, a teacher may make the material available in any form to his/her classroom for any number of courses. A college may, for educational purposes, make the material available to all students in that college in any form and for indefinite time. A teacher or a college do not lease the material. They buy it and may use it for as long as they will in any number of computers within their classroom or college respectively. However, neither the teacher nor the college may charge the students for providing the material. Republishing, reshaping, or transferring the rights to other colleges or teachers is not allowed.

The following documents are ready for licensing (click for more information):

PDFs

Important Release:
The Complete Greek Mythology Link

5346 A4 pages
3909 images
(Section 1:
Free Download)

Abolengo Album - Genealogical Charts

Vista Album - Context Charts

Maps Album - Mythological Maps

Kings Album - Throne Succession Tables

19th Century Mythological Illustrations

Roscher Album - Mythological Illustrations

Names of Mythological Characters in Greek Script

Maps

Map of Greece

Map Achaeans & Trojans

Map The Returns

Map of the Underworld

Map of Atlantis

Charts

Chart Hesiod's Theogony

Chart Mythical Chronology

Chart Historical Context of the Myths

Chart Contemporaries

Notice that the prices of the licenses listed in the site are for personal use. For the purpose of acquiring a teacher license or a college license, contact first Carlos Parada:

 

Roscher Album: Sample of 20 images, size reduced
(the movie takes some time to load)

 

How the site is organized

If this is your first visit, you might benefit from the following description of the structure of the site.

A first division of the material has been done between Central Pages and Topics. This division is reflected in the GML Home Page, but whereas the contents of Topics is detailed in the Home Page, that of the Central Pages is not: you must visit each central page to view its contents. Other divisions are best visualized in this table:

Central Pages
Click to view the contents of each central page

Ca. no. of pages:

Biographies

Links to pages describing the lives and deeds of gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, or any other creatures. Compare with GROUPS and Dictionary below.

+200

GROUPS

'GROUPS' are collective entries, such as AMAZONS and ARGONAUTS. Each group gathers a number of characters sharing common features. There are ca. 100 groups, and any given character may appear in several. Groups are consistently written in capital letters.

120

Places & Peoples

Geographical reference including the mythical history of places and peoples such as Olympia or Laestrygonians.

40

Dictionary

A to Z records organized in two sections: Characters and GROUPS (6520 entries), and a Geographical Reference (1184 entries).

31

Indices

One Index of mythical characters, and another of names of places and peoples. See here how names are spelt or spelled in this site (useful when making a search).

1

Images &
List of Albums

Images in the Greek Mythology Link either illustrate the texts, or are distributed into Albums.
At Images is the complete catalogue with information about the images found in the site.
List of Albums is a shortcut to the Albums. Albums are collections of images of Greek, Roman, and Western art focusing in a character or theme.

To thousands of images

Search the GML

This is the Fast Find search engine. In addition, there are Google search forms in almost every page.

To any page

Español

Traducciones y artículos en español.

10

Topics
Click to see the detailed contents anchored in the Home Page:

Sections:

Ca. no. of pages

On the myths

10

Events

20

Divinities

7

Charts

100

Maps

10

Various

13

Between Legend and History

3

Greek

10

Signed Articles

16

Songs of Troy

14

Postscripts

11

Bibliography

5

On this site

10

Miscellany

20

Notice that:

  • The genealogy of characters usually appears separated from the main text in each page.
  • Numbering of namesakes. The numbers following the names of individuals do not belong to the original names, and are for identification purposes only. The numbers are consistent throughout all texts but they do not represent a chronological order. The absence of a number indicates that there is only one mythological character with that particular name.
  • The main information about a character is found in his/her biography, but more information may be found if the character belongs to a 'Group', or even in the section Places & Peoples where the mythical history of cities (and throne succession) is narrated.
  • Charts are of different kinds:
  • The images are divided into:
  • The most important maps have been compiled in a Maps Album (PDF), but high resolution images may be acquired separately.
  • Sources are listed at the end of each page, where a link to Abbreviations is provided
  • At the end of each page, a list of relevant or related links is usually provided
  • For new material, check Additions.

A chronological strategy for the study of the myths has been outlined at Getting acquainted with the myths. Even if you choose another method, the table provides a summary of the material and a fair number of important links conveniently organized.

The bibliography supporting this site is presented in these links:

 

The Greek Mythology Link is created and maintained by Carlos Parada

Carlos Parada is author of Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology , and former lecturer at the Department of Classics, Lund University (Sweden). Most of his work in recent years has been dedicated to the creation and improvement of the Greek Mythology Link, an Internet site with free access devoted to the Greek myths and related subjects.
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